Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lillian Hellman

People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.

Lillian Hellman

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

Leopold Stokowski

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Leigh Hunt

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

Lauren Myracle

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

Pablo Picasso

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Paul Morley

I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.

Paul Hindemith

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

Paul Hindemith

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

Ken Burns

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Ken Burns

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

Ken Burns

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

Kip Winger

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

Kip Winger

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

Oscar Levant

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)

Margaret Atwood

Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.

Margaret Atwood

Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.

Marcus Miller

It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

Kevin McCall

Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.

Kenny Loggins

It's interesting to see how acoustic guitars are emerging as a primary instrument once again ... reminds me very much of what Jim Messina and I were doing back then. You can't get too far away from an acoustic guitar

Kenny Loggins

The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action.

Kenny Rogers

I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm thankful For the blessing And the lessons that I've learned with you By my side

Mark Twain

I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

Anyway, I'd get bored with just doing music!

Courtney Taylor

That's a lot of music to my ears. I understand that in the SEC we've got to have a running game. If we don't, the offense is going to sputter at times regardless. We're going to get back balance. That's music to the receiver's ears. We want to make plays.

Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

Paul Westerberg

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

Paul Whiteman

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.

Pietro Mascagni

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.